Beater.



No. 802,923 PATENTED OCT. 24, 1905. E. T. FARMER.

BBATER.

APPLICATION FILED APR.22,1905.

Q I a UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN T. FARMER, OF OARTHAGE, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN RUHL, OF OARTHAGE, MISSOURI.

BEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24, 1905.

Application filed April22, 1905. Serial No. 256,940.

To all whom, it may concern.

Be it known that I, EDWIN T. FARMER, a citizen of the United States,-residing at Carthage, in the county of Jasper and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Beaters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for rapidly rotating various objects, such as the beaters of an egg-beating device and rotary beaters or cleaners of various kinds.

The object of the invention is to provide a device embodying a pair of heaters, a reciprocatory actuator, and means connected with the beaters and operated by said actuator for rotating the beaters in reverse directions.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which represents a perspective view of the device as adapted for use as an egg-beater.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates a supporting rod or stem provided at one end with a head or stop 2 and at its opposite end with a handle 3. Arranged upon the rod or stem adjacent to the head 2 are inner and outer rotary beaters 3 and 4. The inner'beater consists of a single piece of wire bent to form a coiled body. having its coils or convolutions lying substantially in the same plane and formed with upper and lower eyes 5 and 6 encompassing the rod or stem to adapt the beater to revolve thereon. From the eye 5 the wire of which the beater is composed extends spirally in one direction over and around the rod or stem 1 and is bent at its upper end to form a bearing-eye 7, arranged to revolve upon the stem adjacent to the handle 3.-

The outer beating member 4 consists of a substantially U-shaped body formed by bending one end of a wire. One extremity of this end of the wire is bent to form an eye8, disposed at one of the terminals of the U, while the wire at the other extremity of the U is bent to form a guide loop or eye 9. Between the two extremities the Wire composing the U-shaped body is bent or coiled upon itself to form a bearing-eye 10, which encompasses the lower end of the stem 1 and bears against the head and forms the bearing member for revolublymounting the beater upon the stem. From the loop or eye 9 the Wire extends to form a connecting ring or annulus 11, which surrounds the stem adjacent to the bearingeye 5 of the beater 3, and from said ring the wire thence continues spirally about the rod or stem upwardly toward the handle 3 and terminates at its upper end in an eye 12, engaging the stem contiguous to the eye 7 of the spiral portion of the wire composing the beater 3. As thus arranged the spiral portions 3 and 4* of the two wires project in reverse directions along and about the rod or stem 1 and constitute spiral driving-shafts for rotating the heaters.

In order to operate the two beaters, a reciprocatory traveler or actuator 13 is provided, which is also formed of a single piece of wire. As shown, one end of this wire is bent upon itself to form an oblong guide-loop 14:, embracing the stem and shafts 3 and 4:, one arm of the loop being coiled to form an eye 15, constituting a guide member, which closely embraces the stem 1. The other end of the wire of which the traveler or actuator is composed is suitably bent to form an operatinghandle 16. v

In operation the device is held by grasping the handle 3 in one hand and operating the actuator 13 through the mediumof the other hand. The actuator is reciprocated longitudinally on the rod or stem 1 and alternately engages the coils or convolutions of the spiral shafts 3 and 4: to revolve the same in opposite directions, thus imparting similar movements to the heaters 3 and 4, as will be readily understood. An easy back-and-forth movement of the actuator on the stem will result in the heaters being rapidly oscillated in reverse directions.

The invention thus provides a device which is simple of construction, etficient in use, comparatively inexpensive of production, and by means of which rapid motion may be imparted to the heaters or parts to be driven.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. The combination of a support, a pair of oscillatory elements, shafts connected with said elements and extending reverse] y in spiral order about the support, and a reciprocating actuator on said support adapted to engage and oscillate the spiral shafts to impart reverse rotation or oscillation of the said elements.

2. The combination with a supporting rod or stem, of a beater and spiral operating-shaft therefor revolubly mounted thereon, said beaterand shaft being formed of a continuous piece of Wire, and a reciprocatory actuator on said rod or stem for operating said shaft.

3. The combination of a rod, beaters revoluby mounted on said stem, spiral shafts revolubly mounted on the stem and connected With the beaters, each beater and its shaft being composed of a single piece of wire, and a reciprocating actuator on the stem adapted to engage and operate the spiral shafts.

4:. The combination with a rod or stem, of a beater revolubly mounted thereon,'said beater comprising a single strand of wire bent to form a beating portion, bearing members embracing the stem and a spiral shaft, and a recipro- ED WIN T. FARMER.

Witnesses:

- Geo. W. CAMPBELL,

FANNY B. CLARK. 

